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New research shows that if you pay people for achievable increases in their daily physical activity, they will continue to be more active for months after the rewards are withdrawn

The Patient’s Medical Home concept was first introduced to me by one of my favourite professors during medical school. “This is the future of family medicine!” he enthused during a lecture, holding up the CFPC’s 2011 release of A Vision for Canada: Family Practice – The Patient’s Medical Home. As a keen medical student who wanted to be part of whatever “the future” was, I checked out the release.

Encountering fear in a rain-soaked bus shelter

On the therapeutic potential of sports

If a Canadian health-care professional believes that an adolescent is a mature minor and has not been vaccinated, they are legally and ethically obliged to provide them with information about vaccination

Do microorganisms differentiate based on sex?

James McCormack has been has been making parodies of popular songs over the past few years as an educational tool for clinicians

Consider hotel rooms and telemedicine as stop-gap solutions